DEFINITIONS
Salt Lake City Code § 14.38.030
in effect14.38.030: DEFINITIONS:
For the purposes of this chapter, the following words or phrases shall have the following meanings:
ART: A type of expressive activity, often characterized by pictorial or visual display: a) that is intended to convey particular ideas, concepts, opinions, emotions, points of view, or other messages and b) for which there is a reasonable likelihood that those who view it will understand it to convey such communicative elements or messages. "Art" includes, for example, paintings, drawings, photography, sculptures, etchings, and live entertainment. "Art" may also include Tshirts and other clothing items, baskets, jewelry, and other similar craft items where such items incorporate communicative elements or contain messages. "Art" does not include mere commercial merchandise not itself inextricably intertwined with some communicative element or not intended and reasonably understood to convey a message such as the following: items that are mass produced primarily for commercial sale, vials of fragrant oils, prayer beads, fashion bracelets and other nonexpressive jewelry items, nonmessage bearing T-shirts or other clothing items, playing cards, collectibles (e.g., Olympic pins and plates), souvenirs (e.g., shot glasses and pens), balloons, or food or other items intended primarily for human consumption.
AVAILABLE CITY PROPERTY:
A. Sidewalk and park strips. Portions of publicly owned sidewalks and park strip areas within the following zoning districts (but excluding landscaped areas in the middle of any public street):
1. Chapter 21A.25, “Mixed Use Districts”;
2. Chapter 21A.30, “Downtown Districts”; and
3. Chapter 21A.31, “Gateway-Mixed Use Districts";
B. Larger city parks. Areas specifically designated by the director of public lands, in accordance with Subsection 14.38.050.B, within those city operated parks (not necessarily limited to those parks identified in Chapter 15.04) that are larger than nine acres; and
C. Any city owned land located in a PL Public Lands or PL2 Public Lands 2 zoning district.
DISPLAY: Includes any display of art, whether or not for sale or compensation.
ENTERTAINMENT: Includes, but is not necessarily limited to, the following activities when performed for the general public: acting, singing, playing musical instruments, pantomiming, juggling, performing magic, dancing, reading, puppetry, sidewalk art (i.e., working with nonpermanent, water soluble media, such as chalk, pastels or watercolors directly on the pavement) and reciting.
PERFORM: Includes performing entertainment for the general public, with or without charge.
SIDEWALK ART: Works of art displayed upon publicly owned property.
SIDEWALK ARTIST: Any person who displays sidewalk art.
SIDEWALK ENTERTAINER: A person, or group of persons together, who perform(s) sidewalk entertainment.
SIDEWALK ENTERTAINMENT: Entertainment performed or provided by a person or group of persons together upon publicly owned property. (Ord. 47A-25, 2025: Ord. 25-04 § 1, 2004)
Source: Salt Lake City, Utah, City Code (American Legal Publishing, codelibrary.amlegal.com)URL: https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/saltlakecityut/latest/saltlakecity_ut/0-0-0-55167Fetched: 11/1/2026